Making a SACD with the Budapest Festival
Orchestra

Here is a video with C. Jared Sacks, founder of CHANNEL CLASSICS
RECORDS, showing his recording technique and talking about his objectives when
recording. Note the use of a central XY
microphone pair in addition to many AB microphones. In particular, he uses
an MS pair, which gives him the freedom to adjust the levels of mid and side
microphone outputs after the recording session at the mixing stage in order to
change the overall stereophonic perspective*.